Anacleto Gonzalez Flores

Anacleto Gonzalez Flores (13 July 1888-1 April 1927) was a Mexican Catholic layman and lawyer who was a leader of the Cristeros during the Cristero War of the 1920s.

Biography
Anacleto Gonzalez Flores was born in Tepatitlan, Jalisco, Mexico in 1888, and he excelled at the seminary before deciding to become an attorney in 1922. He attended Mass daily and became involved with charity efforts such as visiting prisoners and teaching catechism. He later became leader of the Catholic Association of Mexican Youth and founded the magazine La Palabra, which criticized anti-clericalism in the country after the passage of the 1917 constitution. During the 1920s, he supported nonviolent resistance against the government of Plutarco Elias Calles, and, after the massacre of churchgoers by the Mexican Army at a Catholic cathedral in retaliation for an economic boycott against the government, Gonzalez decided to support the rebellious Cristeros. He gave speeches supporting the providence of food, accomodation, and clothing to the rebels, and he was arrested and framed for the murder of an American. He was tortured before being executed by firing squad on 1 April 1927.